Studios will have the biggest say i believe as the best selling titles will help to boast either format. A wait and see is all we can do for now…..although i think sony might just get their way.

Tell us all about the Blu-ray ‘disc rot’ while you’re at it though, why don’t you?

The Blu-ray fans always try and ignore the same central fact in this; the PS3 game console format (Blu-ray) simply doesn’t shift enough movies per player.

Despite being out-numbered by at least 10:1 the best Blu-ray can manage is a 60:40 lead.

All it takes is a little bit of time.

Inexpensive HD DVD is set to take the mainstream a/v mass-market in a way a mere game console never could or would (particularly one as expensive as the PS3).

Very soon the regular DVD market will see a huge wave of $100 players coming from China that do an excellent job upscaling regular DVD and which happen to be very good HD DVD players (they are all based on the 3rd gen Toshiba HD A3).

Blu-ray simply cannot compete with that.
They have no equivalent licencing to the Chinese (which is not the same as either assembly or buying Chinese components – everybody buys in components and has stuff assembled there already).

A stock-clearance on a buggy Samsung or the poorly spec’d Sony doesn’t alter a thing
(and note they were still more expensive than even the 1080p HD DVD players – for those interested in such trivial differences).